Applying Wearable Sensors and Machine Learning to Predict Sports Brain Injuries in Diverse Asian Athletes

Prof. Bonnie Zhu
Prof. Bonnie Danqing Zhu
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Email: bdzhu@ust.hk

Hit to the head

"Concussion"

Injury

Research overview

Key Research Questions

  1. How to map 'head impact' to brain injury?
  2. How to predict brain injury using ML?
  3. How to prevent brain injury?

Expected Impact

Expected Impact
Methodology
Measurement of rotational acceleration
Measurement of rotational acceleration and correlation with reported injuries
Blood-based biomarkers
Using blood-based biomarkers (e.g., proteins) to extract injury-related features and predict clinical outcome from brain injuries.